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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria and PPC Linux support
- To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks at ivey dot uwo dot ca>
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria and PPC Linux support
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at NUXI dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:34:37 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Organization: The NUXI BSD group
- References: <v03110702b533798a58e5@[129.100.29.243]>
- Reply-To: obrien at NUXI dot com
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:26:15PM -0400, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > Should we add PowerPC Linux to the list of platforms?
>
> Since I did not see Franz reply to this, please let me add my two cents
> (representing a reasonable user-base size of PPC Linux users) and request
> strongly that PowerPC Linux be added to the list of supported platforms
> for GCC 3.0.
FreeBSD should be added as a tier-1 platform before this happens.
> - PowerPC linux relies completely on the gcc compilers \
> (and have since the beginning)
As does FreeBSD. :-)
> - There is a reasonbly large user base that relies on it
There are more FreeBSD users than PPC/Linux. :-)
> - There has been support for PowerPC Linux in all of the egcs and gcc
> releases to date
As has there been for FreeBSD.
> - Franz Sirl has been actively supporting that platform for the gcc project
> (with the help of Geoff and Richard and David)
As has FreeBSD developers. :-)
> - PPC is officially supported in the linux kernel, glibc 2.1.X, the
> binutils, gdb (just now), the blackdown jdk, etc.
The FreeBSD kernel offically supports the hardware it runs it. :-)
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com)